I don’t need to tell you what a horrible year 2017 has been for political animus and deepening divisions in the U.S. It’s been written about time and time and time again. And you know; you’re probably living it, too. But today I learned something...
Two years after the original Star Wars was released, I was born into a home full of scifi addicts (let’s not debate whether Star Wars is scifi or fantasy; for the sake of this blog post I’m going to lump it into scifi: it uses advanced technology, not yet...
This year marked my second South By Southwest Interactive experience, and now that a few days have passed since the conference ended I think I can begin to express some of the information that I learned. My brain is recovering from an information hangover. As always,...
Whether or not you believe there’s a developer shortage (many people do and many people don’t), one thing is clear: tech jobs will only continue to grow as other industries shrink. I’ve got a four-year-old daughter, and I want to help give her the...
This weekend Michelle and I will be mentoring and presenting at Reed College’s Working Weekend on women in tech. Here’s the handout we’ll be giving to students on resources for women interested in pursing a career in tech. Please note that these...
Commerce Kitchen’s ownership team is primarily women (3 out of 4 of us). We do our best to encourage women in tech spheres. We support Lady Coders and Women Who Code when we can. We try our best to interview at least one woman every time we have an open position. We...
This past summer when we were going through a rapid growth spurt, we were put in touch with the fantastic Katie Weiss, founder of the Denver/Boulder chapter of Women Who Code. New Why is proud of the fact that 100% of our ownership team is women, and we’re...
This week I interviewed Shelly Drumm on her experience at SXSW Interactive, and how it relates to inbound marketing, web dev, and SEO. Hi Shelly. Hi Natalie. You went to SXSW Interactive last week, and we wanted to catch up with you to find out what you learned. I...
It’s 4pm MST. You’re thinking about connecting with your Twitter followers by sharing an interesting article, making a witty joke, inviting them to a meet-up. You type twitter.com into your Chrome browser. Nothing. You open Firefox. Nothing still....
I’m only part human. I know you’ve been wondering this since you first saw me tweet, since you became my friend on Facebook. And I am ready to tell you that yes, your suspicions are correct. I am a cyborg. But so are you. Scholars, technology specialists,...
